Cloud Solution Architecture - Data Security

Join Microsoft’s US Public Sector Industries DIB Team—where mission meets innovation. 

The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Operating Unit (OU) is a newly formed team with a bold mission: to consolidate, simplify, and accelerate Microsoft’s presence across the DIB landscape. This expansive network includes over 100,000 organizations specializing in manufacturing, aviation, cybersecurity, and more—all united in their support of all Federal Agencies, including the U.S. Department of Defense and other mission-based intelligence and civilian organizations. 

Our team is dedicated to empowering these commercial contractors throughout their digital transformation journey—from envisioning new possibilities to delivering secure, scalable solutions that drive mission outcomes, elevate customer experience, and fuel Microsoft’s growth. 

The DIB OU will directly manage and accelerate strategic and major DIB accounts across Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) Americas, while also enabling growth across other OUs and Small, Medium, Enterprise, & Corporate (SME&C). We’re building new relationships, transforming legacy operations, and helping our customers modernize with confidence. 

We are currently looking for Cloud Solution Architect – Data Security to join our team. 

 

As a Cloud Solution Architect, you will empower customers to achieve their goals through their investments in Microsoft technology. Leveraging your expertise, you'll guide technical discussions to help customers unlock the full potential of their Microsoft solutions, including identifying resolutions to issues blocking customer success projects. This role offers a dynamic opportunity to advance your career, refine your technical and collaboration skills, and deepen your cloud expertise. 

  

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Design Cloud Architectures - Ensure robust, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure tailored to customer needs, allowing businesses to handle growth, and changing demands efficiently. 
• Lead Architectural Design Sessions - Facilitate the creation of effective and efficient cloud solutions through collaborative planning and design sessions, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements. This collaboration fosters innovation and problem-solving, leading to better-designed systems. 
• Develop Proof of Concepts and Pilots – Demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of proposed cloud solutions, gaining customer buy-in and driving adoption. These prototypes help validate ideas and identify potential issues before full-scale implementation, saving time and resources. 
• Provide Technical Guidance and Support - Ensure successful implementation and optimization of cloud solutions, enhancing customer satisfaction and solution performance, to maximize the value of customer cloud investments and adapt efficiently to challenges. 
• Transition Customers from Legacy Systems - Facilitate smooth transitions to modern cloud environments, improving efficiency and reducing operational risks for customers, to help them stay competitive by leveraging the latest technologies and cloud best practices. 
• Thought Leadership & Stakeholder Management - Drive innovation to meet future market demand and maximize customer impact. Establish long-term engagement to influence large customers in adopting Microsoft Technologies. Proven track record of developing deep technical relationships. 
• Customer Enablement and Business Acumen - Experience in offering guidance to the broader technical team to ensure that technical pre-sales, deployment, and consumption are part of solution development efforts and the ability to coach the customer on building resilience to technical issues and dealing with competition and and/or discuss Microsoft products and articulate the value proposition of Microsoft Cloud services to customers by understanding of business processes and the ability to identify opportunities where technology can drive business value. Experience in translating technical concepts into business benefits

Qualifications

Required Qualifications (RQ's)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience designing and implementing Information Security, Privacy and Information Governance solutions leveraging Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Priva and Microsoft Purview offerings or other DIB industry-aligned Security and Governance platforms and/or solutions.  
• Experience with Microsoft security solutions (M365 Defender, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel) or, one or more related technologies such as Prisma Cloud, Crowdstrike, Proofpoint, Splunk, etc. 

Preferred Qualifications (PQ'S)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting 
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• 3+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external). 
• 2+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management 
• Working knowledge and demonstrated skill implementing solutions across the Security Development Lifecyle and integration security principles, patterns and practices into the DevOps lifecycle in an enterprise environment 
• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture). 
• Experience leading technical sales or success activities for Microsoft Security solutions or other DIB industry-aligned AI solutions 
• Current industry certifications including CISSP, CCSP, iAPP, etc. 
• Current Microsoft Information Security Administrator Associate, Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (or Architect Expert) 
• Working knowledge of DevSecOps practices and technologies including GitHub or Azure DevOps 
• Working knowledge of NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171 and NIST 800-172 controls and CMMC audit and certification requirements 
• Relevant certifications: 
  • Current Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification 
  • Current TOGAF or DoDAF Certification 

Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.  Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay      Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 30, 2025. 

 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

 

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